Superior Court Commissioner Kern County
Career Highlights: Named to an interim appointment to the Kern County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, May 2024, to assume the position he was otherwise elected to begin January 2025; appointed Kern County Superior Court commissioner, 2022-2024; sole practitioner, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, 1995-2022, associate, Law Offices of Anthony Caronna (now retired), Rancho Mirage, 1994-95; associate, Law Offices of McLachlan Burford Arias, San Bernardino, 1993-94
Law School: California Southern Law School, 1992
Career Highlights: Named to an interim appointment to the Kern County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom, May 2024, to assume the position he was otherwise elected to begin January 2025; appointed Kern County Superior Court commissioner, 2022-2024; sole practitioner, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, 1995-2022, associate, Law Offices of Anthony Caronna (now retired), Rancho Mirage, 1994-95; associate, Law Offices of McLachlan Burford Arias, San Bernardino, 1993-94
Law School: California Southern Law School, 1992
BAKERSFIELD -- Superior Court Commissioner Donald B. Griffith knew that family law was in the cards even from the onset of his career at a personal injury defense firm.
"That was the area where I was angling," he said of what eventually became his principal legal focus.
Before making that move, though, he took a chance in complex construction defect litigation, where it was quite c... (continued)
